Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to DrydenThis is a major study of the relation between poetry and politics in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, focusing in particular on the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Dryden. Taking issue with the traditional concept of the political poem and with recent New Historicist criticism, Erskine-Hill argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of the political allegory of Dryden's Absolom and Architophel and other overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting and less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. |
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... Lost bridges classical and Christian as the Aeneid bridged Greek and Roman , Iliad and Odyssey . As Dryden was to put it in 1688 in perceptive compliment : Three Poets , in three distant Ages born , Greece , Italy , and England did ...
... Lost bridges classical and Christian as the Aeneid bridged Greek and Roman , Iliad and Odyssey . As Dryden was to put it in 1688 in perceptive compliment : Three Poets , in three distant Ages born , Greece , Italy , and England did ...
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... Lost for political ideology , or vice versa , while still seeing the text as disen- gaged from Milton's current or recent historical situation . She has no difficulty in dealing with ' political ideas as an overt subject in the poem ...
... Lost for political ideology , or vice versa , while still seeing the text as disen- gaged from Milton's current or recent historical situation . She has no difficulty in dealing with ' political ideas as an overt subject in the poem ...
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... Lost for , strangely perhaps in a poem about how man's fall ' Brought death into the world ' ( i . 3 ) , there is little individual death in Milton's Christian epic . None can die in the wars in Heaven , and while Death is allegorically ...
... Lost for , strangely perhaps in a poem about how man's fall ' Brought death into the world ' ( i . 3 ) , there is little individual death in Milton's Christian epic . None can die in the wars in Heaven , and while Death is allegorically ...
Contents
List of Illustrations བ | 11 |
Introduction I | 11 |
The First Tetralogy and King John | 46 |
Copyright | |
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